The Shape

The Shape We’re Becoming

Original Mixed-Media Painting | An Abstract Woman

This painting belongs to an upcoming collection exploring a rudimentary approach to my work. Raw, Heavily Textured and Beautiful.

Built up with papier-mâché collage, acrylic, oil stick, charcoal, and oil paint, this piece sits somewhere between painting and sculpture. The surface is uneven, and the figure is unrefined.

I’ve spent years painting women through emotion, gesture, and instinct. That hasn’t changed. But the way I’m expressing those things is beginning to.

Lately, I’ve stepped back a little. Not because I’ve lost interest.. I simply wanted to observe.

There’s so much happening around us. So much to celebrate, and so much still to wait for. I find myself just, watching. Listening. Paying attention to the ways we’re changing… And I can’t help but feel that we’re on the edge of something.

I believe women are rising. In ways we can see, and in ways we haven’t even started to recognize.

Maybe that’s why my work is changing, too.

I’m drawn to exaggerated forms. Uneven proportions. Rough surfaces… I like things, left exposed?

This collection isn’t about presenting women as finished, versions of themselves.

It’s about recognizing us as we are, while leaving room for everything we’re going to be.

There’s so much to celebrate. And I have a feeling the best is still ahead of us.

 Details

• Original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media painting
• 24x36 
• Built-up papier-mâché collage creating a dimensional, textured surface
• Acrylic, oil stick, charcoal, and oil paint
• Part of the upcoming collection The Shape We’re Becoming
• By Stephanie Baron | An Abstract Woman
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